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The Plot Twitters

This past weekend’s internet fad: the Twitter opera plot. The Omniscient Mussel, a classical music blogger, started a contest challenging one and all to summarize an opera plot in 140 characters or less on Twitter. By Sunday, a look at my Facebook home page was yielding gems like

One lover's a diva, one's a doll, one's dead from singing, and one's diamond-crazed. Stick with the muse disguised as a student. (From Olivia Giovetti, who was particularly good at this.)

I dropped the atomic bomb and it went off. Wait, I feel guilty. Too late. Might as well sing pretentious poetry. (From Aaron M. Renn)

It’s open to question whether it was more fun to write them or to decode them. I trust all of my opera-savvy readers have identified these references, but feel free to write in with your guesses if you want confirmation. (Extra credit for naming the opera in which The Omniscient Mussel is a character.)

Alas, the contest ended at midnight last night. I would have been happy to follow it for another week.

Several years ago my local public TV station showed as "filler" a short film on opera - it had Monty-Python-like animations of various opera plots told in very short summaries and a "body count" at the end of each. It was hilarious. I wonder if it's anywhere on the Internet.

The operas are Die Tote Stadt, Hoffman, and Dr. Atomic and last time I looked the Omniscent Mussel was Jill Grove.
Meanwhile, Opera Chic is welcoming Anne's new blog
http://operachic.typepad.com/opera_chic/2009/03/anne-midgettes-classical-music-beat-where-the-washington-post-increases-its-coolness-factor.html